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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Talking 'Bout Your Reputation
David BirchPeople think they want anonymity, but actually desire privacy. But how do we reframe the debate surrounding privacy and security? Perhaps technology...
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Understanding the Data Environment
Elaine Mackey, Mark ElliotProtecting data privacy and anonymity requires a better understanding of the conditions and mechanisms under which they may be threatened...
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What is Bitcoin?
Dominic HobsonStrengths and weaknesses of the leader in a new generation of emerging cryptocurrencies.
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The Tor Project: An inside view
Kelley MisataA decade since the first version was released, Tor continues to be at the center of the debate around online privacy.
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It's Not About Winning, it's About Sending a Message: Hiding information in games
Philip C. RitcheyNew information hiding techniques use online games to transmit secrets covertly. The technique is simple, but the problem of detecting these covert...
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An Illustrated Primer in Differential Privacy
Christine TaskThe vast amounts of data that are now available provide new opportunities to social science researchers, but also raise huge privacy concerns for...
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Cynthia Dwork on Differential Privacy
Michael ZubaDistinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, Dr. Cynthia Dwork, provides a first-hand look at the basics of differential privacy.
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Jessica Staddon: Managing Google's privacy research
Adrian ScoicăIn this profile, Jessica Staddon discusses managing privacy research for one the world's best-known technology corporations.
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CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (Pittsburgh, PA)
Rich ShayCUPS, a research lab at Carnegie Mellon University, is dedicated to addressing the broad array of challenges collectively called "usable privacy and security...
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Theory vs Learning Models
A testimonial to easy data visualization and exploration. I believe that data visualization should always be the first step to analytics. Which means it can often...
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The Future of the Bionic Body
In the Smithsonian Mag: A good nontechnical view of the current state and future of the bionic body. " ... The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body ....
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Statistician vs Data Scientist
Vincent Granville measures the frequency of use of different keywords and finds the use of the word 'statistician' dropping versus 'data analyst'. Death of the...
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Glass Streaming Surgery
It is not uncommon to stream point of view surgery video. Apparently an early case of doing it with Google Glass. Not new, but can lead to thinking about different...
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Visualization of Research Activities at EMC
In Innovation Excellence: Using visualization to understand and improve categories of research activities. This might have been very useful in our enterprise...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Photo
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Science Foundation Appoints new Division Director for the Division of Computing and Communications Foundations
On August 29, 2013, Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced the appointment of Dr. Rao Kosaraju as the new...
From Schneier on Security
Opsec Details of Snowden Meeting with Greenwald and Poitras
I don't like stories about the personalities in the Snowden affair, because it detracts from the NSA and the policy issues. But I'm a sucker for operational security...
From Computer Science Teachers Association